[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#522136: SEGV at startup

[Mika Tiainen]

severity 522136 important
tags 522136 patch
thanks


Raising severity as this completely breaks HAL on affected machines. 

Attached is a patch against 0.5.12~git20090406.46dc48-1 that fixes the
segfault for me.

"hal_device_property_get_string (parent, "storage.drive_type")" returns
NULL for these partitioned md-devices, which is passed to strcmp() and
causes the segfault.

NOTE: I don't know whether the actual bug is that parent points to the
wrong place, but this atleast gets HAL working again.

There are already similar reports in Ubuntu and upstream bugzilla:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hal/+bug/353396
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19577

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